aerogel-it celebrates 4 years

Last week, the aerogel-it team came together in Hamburg to celebrate the company anniversary – already 4 years!

In addition to an excellent dinner at Küchenfreunde, Nikias Thörner of BYNIK organized a photoshooting with SOS and YAROSLAVA for us. It was high time to update those team photos, since we have gotten noticeably older since the last time those photos were taken.

It was very nice to have everyone together again, especially since it is not easy to get everyone together in one place what with all of the locations and commitments.

It was also a great opportunity for the team to take a moment and reflect on the great progress we have made in the last year.

Highlights of the last year

1️⃣ We are growing our aerogel distribution business. In general, are perceiving more interest from the market. And we are building new partnerships worldwide e.g. in the US, Middle East, SE Asia/Australia and China.

2️⃣ Completely new verticals and applications for aerogels have come up which we are now exploring. Thanks to our expertise and flexible aerogel material platform, we can quickly work towards new solutions.

3️⃣ Alberto, our “process magician”, has comissioned our pilot plant at Hamburg University of Technology. We have been able to produce hundreds of liters of our new aerogel materials. With this, we are validating both our next-generation product and process technology.

4️⃣ What is great: Our customers like our products and have purchased most of our pilot production. They have transitioned into their own pilot testing with success and are providing highly valuable learnings. The remaining pilot material has gone into various publicly funded projects such as the iclimabuilt project BIOVIPWALL.

5️⃣ Our biomineral silica aerogel is proving itself as next-generation version of classical silica aerogel with much-improved properties. It is suitable e.g. for aerogel render, aerogel coatings or aerogel cavity fill. But since it is robust, it also enables completely new aerogel-granule composites.

6️⃣ Our cellulose bioaerogel is showing great potential as bio-based and lightweight core material for vacuum-insulation panels e.g. for logistics solutions. We presented bioaerogel VIP prototypes at the BAU 2025 fair in Munich together with our partner va-Q-tec.

7️⃣ We have now filled a beautiful public project pipeline to work on exciting R&D topics over the next years with our partners. More details to follow.

8️⃣ We have condensed all of our technical and business learnings into an attractive investment offering. We will kick off scaling to production scale once all the pieces are securely in place.

aerogel-it celebrates 4 years! Thank you very much to the team and to all our partners and supporters! 🙏